The sUAS used on Animal Planets, Whale Wars was built and designed in Wichita, Kansas by Jimmy Prouty at Hanger 18. Its going to show for the first time to many people that civilian sUAS exist and are as good if not better than some military equivalents. Airframe basics Wingspan 2.2m Fuselage: 25″ long, 3″ diameter. The Osprey was designed as...
Well done the Attopilot team for its their aircraft that undertook these missions. The Sea Shepherd crew has intercepted the Japanese whaling fleet on Christmas Day, a thousand miles north of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. The Sea Shepherd ship, Steve Irwin, deployed a drone to successfully locate and photograph the Japanese factory shipNisshin Maru on December 24th. Once the pursuit began,...
This small, low cost UAS was developed to carry the largest payload possible whilst staying in the air for an extended lengths of time. The Mini Devilray is made from a crash resistant EPP foam with a proprietary composite fuselage able to easily carry 10,000 mAh plus payload. Currently only available directly through AttoPilot International as a ready to...
An American start up company from Arizona continues to grow and make the right connections with an interesting circular winged platform. Chris Mc Nair from AttoPilot sent us news of a very successful AUVSI 2011. AttoPilot International (API) have teamed up with AeroBat Aviation in a cooperative partnership to produce high quality low cost sUAS and RPA systems. API is...
The Foamaroo is an ideal UAV trainer/FPV platform based on the Jackaroo UAV from AttoPilot International and made under license by Hangar 18. Construction is of a hybrid EPP/fiberglass construction method pioneered by Hangar 18. Test have shown that the hybrid construcion of the fuselage combined with EPP wings is a very light weight yet rugged combination. With a...
An autonomous flying saucer for all, get ready for an increase in UFO sightings. Aerobat Aviation Inc and Attopilot International have teamed up to add an autopilot to the innovate circular flying wing design. The circular winged craft promises flight performance increases across a wide speed range. The design has previously been of interest to the US Navy as...
Nigel King from Blue River studios recently undertook an interesting commission, read more here The RWYU were the first youth group to receive funding from the 2012 Olympics. Whilst the organisation ran 5 different youth groups, this event was to combine all the groups into once team and do something unique, arty and creative outside. Druridge Bay offered a canvas of...
Dean Goedde of AttoPilot fame, has released details of the new GCS, due to hit laptops shortly. Ground Control Software (GCS) We are close in final testing for a totally new custom scratch-made GCS with: Integrated maps (13 sources free with caching for offline use), integrated mission planning pre-flight and real-time via simple mouse clicks. Atto’s waypoints still contain...
UK based YellowPlane flew a flying wing unmanned aerial system (UAS) on Monday creating a UK aviation first. Their craft was the first in the air in a group of five, two rotary and three fixed wing. George Duncan of the UK CAA was on hand to observe the flights and it is hoped that by the Farnborough 2014...
Dean Goedde of Attopilot fame has posted development news. Tri-copter successfully flown with IMU AttoPilot in a stabilized and assisted attitude mode (Co-Pilot type mode). Planning to offer as a commercial product, likely as part of the standard IMU Atto autopilot system. GPS + IMU INS filter for heading (without magnetometers!) with uncorrected drift of 2.5 degrees per minute...
